Expertise analysis in a question answer portal for author ranking
Chen, Lin & Nayak, Richi (2009) Expertise analysis in a question answer portal for author ranking. In 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 9-12 December 2008, Sydney, Australia.
An online question answering (QA) portal provides users a way to socialize and help each other to solve problems. The majority of the online question answer systems use user-feedback to rank users’ answers. This way of ranking is inefficient as it involves ongoing efforts by the users and is subjective. Currently researchers have utilized link analysis of user interactions for this task. However, this is not accurate in some circumstances. A detailed structural analysis of an online QA portal is conducted in this paper. A novel approach based on users’ reputation reflecting the usage patterns is proposed to rank and recommend the user answers. The method is compared with a popular link topology analysis method, HITS. The result of the proposed method is promising.
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|Item Type:||Conference Paper|
|Keywords:||Question answer system, Recommendation system, Social network analysis, Yahoo! Answers, User expertise/reputation|
|Subjects:||Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) > Information Systems not elsewhere classified (080699)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (080500) > Web Technologies (excl. Web Search) (080505)
|Divisions:||Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Science and Technology
Past > Schools > School of Information Systems
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|Deposited On:||03 Mar 2009 21:59|
|Last Modified:||29 Feb 2012 13:47|
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